- Date
- September 27, 2009, 19:11 local (Sep 28, 2009, 01:11 UTC)
- Place
- Kingman, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N190JSCessna 195
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20090927018269A
- Case key
- 74811
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure of the right landing gear wheel attachment bolts.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that 1-2 seconds after landing on runway 21, he heard a 'bang', then the right wing dropped, and the airplane ground-looped to the right, substantially damaging the wing and fuselage. Upon examination of the right landing gear strut, he observed that the right wheel had separated from the strut leg. Examination of the bolts that attached the wheel to the strut revealed that one bolt fractured and the other two were stripped of their respective nuts. The pilot stated that the bolts installed on the wheel were not in compliance with a recent service bulletin that recommended a higher tensile strength bolt.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that 1-2 seconds after landing on runway 21, he heard a 'bang', then the right wing dropped, and the airplane ground looped to the right substantially damaging the wing and fuselage. Upon examination of the right landing gear strut, he observed that the right wheel had separated from the strut leg. Examination of the bolts that attached the wheel to the strut revealed that one bolt fractured and the other two were stripped of their respective nuts. The pilot stated that the bolts installed on the wheel were not in compliance with a recent service bulletin that recommended a higher tensile strength bolt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N190JS
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7294
- Airframe hours
- 3,352
- Engine
- Jacobs R755A SERIES, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Swann Neal P
- Registered owner
- Swann Neal P
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 4, 2009
- Departed
- KSAF · Santa Fe, NM
- Destination
- KIGM · Kingman, AZ
- Airport
- KIGM · Kingman Airport, runway 21, 6,827 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 11, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 519 total · 49 in this make and model · 361 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 280° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KIGM
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 21, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.